{"id":48444,"date":"2015-02-17T22:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_killed_by_idi_amin_a_ugandan_archbishop_gets_the_honor_he_deserved\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:10:59","slug":"rns_killed_by_idi_amin_a_ugandan_archbishop_gets_the_honor_he_deserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48444","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Killed by Idi Amin, a Ugandan archbishop gets the honor he deserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with a Bible and a cross, a Ugandan Anglican archbishop took a bold step 38 years ago when he demanded that dictator Idi Amin put an end to extrajudicial killings, political repression, corruption and ethnic persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Janani Luwum paid with his life; he was assassinated on Feb. 16, 1977, his body placed in mangled car wreck in a staged accident. Reports suggest Amin ordered the cleric\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday (Feb. 16), the country celebrated the life and ministry of the late cleric with a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni spoke at an international memorial organized by the Anglican Church of Uganda to mark Luwum\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/02\/17\/killed-idi-amin-ugandan-archbishop-gets-honor-deserved\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with a Bible and a cross, a Ugandan Anglican archbishop took a bold step 38 years ago when he demanded that dictator Idi Amin put an end to extrajudicial killings, political repression, corruption and ethnic persecution. Archbishop Janani Luwum<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,40,50,202,74,186,396,438,184,151,34,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-uganda","category-death-burial-funerals","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-theology","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}